The results of the 2018 Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections will be declared on December 11. &nbsp

Bhopal: Burhanpur is one of the 230 Assembly constituencies in Madhya Pradesh that went to polls on November 28. The results of the 2018 Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, along with those held in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram, will be declared today. The counting has already begun.

Burhanpur is a part of Burhanpur district in southern Madhya Pradesh. The district also includes Nepanagar constituency, which is reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidates. The area is a hub of the textile industry.

In the 2018 Burhanpur Assembly elections, Archana Chitnis, the sitting MLA from the BJP, was up against the Congress's Ravindra Suka Mahajan. The Burhanpur constituency saw a voter turnout of 76.62 per cent on November 30. In the 2013 Assembly polls, Chitnis had defeated Congress candidate Ajaysingh Raghuvanshi by a margin of 22,827 votes.

The BJP's Shivraj Chouhan, who is the longest-serving chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, is aiming for a fourth term in office. But this time the BJP is facing a stiff challenge from the Congress, which is seeking to return to power in the state after 15 years.